I know I haven’t been posting as much lately. It’s that time of year when I’m busy working on making Christmas gifts and of course, those can’t be revealed until after Christmas. I do have some recipes that I want to get posted and hope to get to those soon. But I also have another reason why I haven’t been…
Each spring and fall, Amy from Amy’s Creative Side hosts her bi-annual Blogger’s Quilt Festival to coincide with the spring and fall Quilt Markets. This first week, May 17th to 24th, bloggers can link up and share their favourite quilts in a variety of categories. Then from May 24th to 30th the voting for a favourite in each category takes…
When I first started stitching the Vintage Chore Girls, I had the idea that I’d turn them into a baby quilt to have on hand ready to give next time there’s a baby girl born for whom I want a special gift. But as I stitched and thought about it, I got to thinking about when I was a young…
These beautiful Fabric Art Journal Covers began as simple fabric panels that were embellished with hand quilting, embroidery and beads. The embellishing of the two fabric bird panels began in July of 2012. The original post can be found here with updates on my progress here, here and here. I had originally intended to turn the completed panels into a…
Last Sunday, I posted that I was closing in on finishing the 4th of July picnic quilt that I started last summer. A large part of Sunday afternoon was spent sitting out in the screened in porch enjoying the beautiful weather and hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt. Once I lost the light, I moved inside…
In the above photo, I’m sewing the last few inches of binding onto my 4th of July Picnic quilt. I completed the top in the middle of July 2012. It’s going to feel so good to have this finished! And then I’ll only have a couple more projects that were started in 2012 and have been traveling from place to…
I took the leftover fabrics from my 4th of July Picnic Quilt, cut them into squares and rectangles and started sewing them together. Once I had the four strips sewed together and took a picture of the finished top, my first thought was that it looked a little like someone has taken the American flag, cut it up and sewed…
Last spring, I had the idea that I would make each of our children a quilt for Christmas. I made this Jelly Roll 1600 quilt top with our middle daughter in mind. Then the six month contract Dave had been hired for was cancelled after little more than two months. The quilt top got folded and placed in the bottom…
I’ve been working off and on embellishing two fabric bird panels since July of last year. You can follow the progress on these panels by clicking on the embroidery category in my left sidebar. In December, I added beads to the centers of the flowers and to the flower buds. That left only the birds’ eyes, which I had also…
I am pleased to say that this month’s FNSI was a success. I set out to finish embroidering the flowers on the blue bird panel and I succeeded in doing just that. The embroidery/quilting on both bird panels is now complete and it’s on to adding the beading. To make FNSI even more successful, I managed to get the second…